COMM 300 - Interpersonal Communication Theory

Course Instructor: Ron Wright
New Technologies Consultant: Mary Flores

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>> Interactional View - Paul Watzlawick

Web Links

Watzlawick in from of MRI

MRI of Palo Alto: The home of the Palo Alto Group - these pages take forever to load because they have HUGE graphics, but they're really interesting...

Family Therapy Timeline (1997) Allyn & Bacon



Bateson and Mead Gregory Bateson Information Pages: Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson were married in 1936. They had met and fallen in love in 1932 while both were doing anthropological fieldwork on the Sepik River in New Guinea. Margaret was at the same time with her second husband, Reo Fortune. In New Guinea Gregory's unusual sense of theory met Margaret's improved field methodology and sparked much of the quality in Gregory's opus on the latmul tribe, Naven.

Gregory Bateson and how his research effects NLP™ (Neuro-linguistic Programming™ )

The Pattern Which Connects: About Gregory Bateson: "What's Bateson talking about?" he writes unselfconsciously in Mind and Nature when referring to his college students' temporary confusion when confronted with a crab -- a favorite Bateson object -- in class.

Final statement on the Double Bind by G. Bateson, D. Jackson, J. Haley, and J. Weakland in Communication, Family and Marriage (1968) ed. by D. Jackson


Applying the Theory

Soliloquy or Psychosis? A Cultural Look at Schizophrenia Paper by Michael B. Scher that deals with the double bind theory of schizophrenia and applies Paul Watzlawick (1976), How Real is Real? : confusion, disinformation, communication as well as 1961 and 1972 works of Gregory Bateson

http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~comm300/mary/interpersonal/interactional.html